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Gangnam, No Style
This week, I arrive in the world's most technologically advanced nation, fail to buy a taxi ride, fail to buy ice cream, and am refused currency by a…
Jul 12
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Witterings: Guantanamo, Xanadu and Eight Weeks of No Drinking
This week, Chesterton refuses to poo, I consider a move to Manchester, and my final, final, final surgery turns out not to be final after all.
Jul 9
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Stevie Bennett
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June 2026
Today I Built a TERF Annihilation App Because Apparently I Needed a Hobby
Well, after a full day of being discussed, misrepresented, and called the usual things, I got bored of trying to answer everyone individually. So I…
Jun 24
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I Built "Become"! Now I Need to Know If Trans Women Actually Want It.
Become is my new body-planning system for trans women, designed around silhouette, hormones, injuries and food structure. I’d love your feedback.
Jun 22
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TERF'ism - A History
I went looking for the real history of TERFism: money, model bills, churches, think tanks and the policy machine behind the panic.
Jun 17
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Alcohol
I drank for twenty five years chasing one night I had at sixteen. I never found it again. The night I stopped reaching, the urge vanished.
Jun 14
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♪♪♪ You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only 57 (not 17!) ♪♪♪
This week I fly to London to see ABBA Voyage, lose my tickets to a CAPTCHA, defeat myself with Citymapper, get trapped in a Tube station in three-inch…
Jun 9
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Editorial position: This Is Not a Trans Politics Publication
I could make it bigger by chasing the angry traffic. I am not going to. Here is what this is instead.
Jun 8
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I am now a Woman
Somewhere between a Stewart Lee gig in Wexford and the rain on the drive home, I finally said the sentence I had never allowed myself to say
Jun 6
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Why You Can't Win an Argument With a TERF
This week: the Nobel-winning psychology of why you've never once won an argument about trans people, and never will. Featuring Daniel Kahneman, Richard…
Jun 4
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Pride Month, God Steve hated Pride Month
How a deeply sceptical trans woman finally understood what Pride was for
Jun 2
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May 2026
Every Time They Rejected Me, I Hit the Bottle
Friends, colleagues, family. Then I noticed the pattern: every time they rejected me, I drank. So I stopped trying. And got happier.
May 29
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Stevie Bennett
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